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Gustavo Moraes
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Gustavo Moraes

Gustavo Moraes is the CEO of Trentim, a company focused on providing management methodologies and tools mainly in the Microsoft ecosystem, with a large client base in Brazil and abroad. He is an MCT (Microsoft Certified Trainer). He has been working with Microsoft technologies for over 12 years with extensive expertise in process automation, and project and task management. He is one of the leading names in the field of automation on Microsoft and Low Code platforms in Brazil. He has led many events and communities in addition to being a prominent user in the Microsoft community. Christian, married to Aline for 8 years and father of Alexia and Natasha.
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Douglas Romao
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Douglas Romao

Douglas Romão has been a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional in Office Apps & Services and Business Applications since 2017. He is a Microsoft Certified Trainer and has been working with Microsoft technologies for over 15 years, focusing mainly on developing productivity and collaborative solutions. Currently, work as a Senior Solution Architect & Business Consultant within the Power Platform and Project & Portfolio Management field, leading technical communities and sharing knowledge through conferences, his YouTube channel/blog, and a podcast. Christian, father of Vicente (a 7-month-old baby boy by the time this book has been released) and married to Mariana.
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From a form to a Power BI dashboard

Analyzing the survey data on our dashboard more deeply can be done simply if our form was created in Excel. We just connected our Power BI to the source Excel file and thus built the charts; however, most Microsoft forms are not created this way.

To analyze the answers of forms that were not made in Excel, it is necessary to export the answers to be able to use them as a data source in Power BI. This manual work makes it difficult to act and analyze in real time, which is required in certain scenarios.

Let's use an example of a form that is available globally to collect complaints about environmental deforestation. The faster these complaints appear in the indicators and generate alerts, the more chance there is of action being effective. To technically set up this scenario, we will use three tools that we have already seen in this book (Microsoft Forms, Power Automate, and Power BI), and with them, we will have the form data in real time...

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Gustavo Moraes

Gustavo Moraes is the CEO of Trentim, a company focused on providing management methodologies and tools mainly in the Microsoft ecosystem, with a large client base in Brazil and abroad. He is an MCT (Microsoft Certified Trainer). He has been working with Microsoft technologies for over 12 years with extensive expertise in process automation, and project and task management. He is one of the leading names in the field of automation on Microsoft and Low Code platforms in Brazil. He has led many events and communities in addition to being a prominent user in the Microsoft community. Christian, married to Aline for 8 years and father of Alexia and Natasha.
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Douglas Romao

Douglas Romão has been a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional in Office Apps & Services and Business Applications since 2017. He is a Microsoft Certified Trainer and has been working with Microsoft technologies for over 15 years, focusing mainly on developing productivity and collaborative solutions. Currently, work as a Senior Solution Architect & Business Consultant within the Power Platform and Project & Portfolio Management field, leading technical communities and sharing knowledge through conferences, his YouTube channel/blog, and a podcast. Christian, father of Vicente (a 7-month-old baby boy by the time this book has been released) and married to Mariana.
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